Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Have a Holly Jolly Christmas

The year is almost at the end and I love that there is so much of holiday spirit and excitement which leaves little time to look back on the year that is past. I am not great at the whole "looking back" thing. You give me a moment to pause and ponder and I go hyper, over-analyzing things I should have done the other way. I like it better this way when everything happens so fast that I have little time to even think of the year 2011 until I have to write a check or something at which point I go, 2012, really, 2011 is over ? And so where did my money go and such crap.

But it is Christmas and so we will not talk about money because what is money but "some paper" to buy gifts.Instead we will talk about Santa, the jolly old fellow and the conversation he brings about in our home.

Pertinent question. Why ask for something which the guy does not have.

BigSis who just turned eight does not believe in Santa any more. To test it out, this year she is not telling me what she wants. She is sending her request to Santa directly. No via media. I don't know why she is taking such risks but she is doing it.

Big Sis turned eight this week.I had started this blog a few weeks before she turned three. Time does fly. She had her party at a pottery studio where she and her friends had great fun painting mugs. I cannot wait to see the final product all fired and glazed. Little S sat and painted one whole 10 oz mug. I was itching to intervene like the proverbial Desi Mother but stayed back most of the time. Hallelujah !!

We are having a busy vacation this time with lots of family, so many that we will not even fit in our 7-seater when we go out. And so I need to cook a lot. I don't have a menu yet. But I am putting up some sample menus for the holidays which I actually might want to follow. Some days I am sure to chuck it all and make a one pot pasta for dinner. And then on others there is my favorite "Thai-Thai".

32 comments:

I LOVE how big sis turned Santa's existence into a testable hypothesis. Smart girl she is. Of course, pretending to believe might be more profitable ;) Happy 8th birthday to her and happy holidays to you and your clan!

as i'm reading your blog, i keep reading bits aloud to my husband. as i read aloud the bit about santa, my 3-year old said "aami ekta rainbow chai". tough.i feel like i 'know' everything that you write about - the foods, the smells, memories of kolkata, of growing up there. it's such a lovely feeling.and a birthday party at a pottery barn - what a lovely idea. happy 8th to big sis!

I love your meal plan! And such a great story! Happy belated to BigSis. My son found out about Santa when he was 7. We were moving cities, and Santa had forgotten the gift wrap behind when he'd wrapped my son's gift. And it just happened that the gift wrap fell off the top shelf while I was trying to pack things, and my son paused for 2 seconds and turned accusing eyes at me and said: "So the Santa that visited our house all these years was a girl!" I'll never forget those words or the shame I felt on breaking his trust.

Wishing a belated happy birthday with lots n lots of love to BS. Wishing Merry Christmas & Happy New Year 2012 to all of u n ur family. In 2011, I owe u an info. We discussed about feta n other chesse - how to get them at Cal. Some of ur readers came out with lots of suggestions - thanks to all of them once again. Recently I found great stock of cheese at Kolkata, including feta - newly opened 'Deli' at Conclave (AJC Bose Road). Dont know how long they will maintain such stock, but I hope we can continue... Happy cooking! Happy blogging!! Happy Motherhood too !!!!! :)

SO, Im not the only one who makes menus! HA!!! People rolled their eyes when they saw it....Family landing tomorrow and I have a menu made up for the next 10 days - breakfast, lunch and dinner. Makes shopping so much easier not to mention the cooking!

K had a "toy makup set" on her Santa list, managed to get a friend in Mumbai to buy and courier across - I was only getting real "children's" make up sets here - whatever that means!!!!

Happy Birthday to Big sis and Happy BlogBirthday to you! :) And you didn't intervene with S's creative ways - Kudos, I dont have that much self control :(

Would love to see your elder princess creative work in your coming posts. Enjoy your holidays....Merry Christmas :-) My sister's Danish colleagues asked for another round of Prawn curry :-). You made her famous !!

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Predominantly a Bong, who loves being a Mom and loves to cook among other things for the li'l one and the big ones.She loves to write too and you will find her food spiced up with stories. Mainly a collection of Bengali Recipes with other kinds thrown in, in good measure. A Snapshot of Bengali Cuisine